On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 12:04 AM Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > $ dpkg -L kmod | grep bin | grep depmod
> > /sbin/depmod
> >
> > $ which depmod
> > [ empty ]
> >
> > $ echo $PATH
> > /opt/proxychains-ng/bin:/home/dileks/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games
Ok, I think this is a broken setup that has a separate /sbin but does
not have it in the PATH.
As you noticed, you can fix it with
DEPMOD=/sbin/depmod
or you could just make /sbin part of your PATH.
It looks like on your distro, /sbin is restricted to just the
super-user PATH, which is odd, but I guess there's at least _some_
logic to it.
I guess we could have some compatibility thing in scripts/depmod.sh,
something like
diff --git a/scripts/depmod.sh b/scripts/depmod.sh
index e083bcae343f..a93261207453 100755
--- a/scripts/depmod.sh
+++ b/scripts/depmod.sh
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ if ! test -r System.map ; then
exit 0
fi
+# legacy behavior: "depmod" in /sbin
+PATH="$PATH:/sbin"
if [ -z $(command -v $DEPMOD) ]; then
echo "Warning: 'make modules_install' requires $DEPMOD. Please
install it." >&2
echo "This is probably in the kmod package." >&2
or similar. Does that work for you?
Linus
